This is all hypothetical. I don't post this for advice. I just wanna see what your morals are like.
Imagine you're at a point in your life where you've spent time taking your beginner's licks in a certain scene. Getting ripped off or less than what you paid for by middle men, or just plain getting some shit that you wouldn't put in your worst enemy, time and time again in the past, until you finally sink low enough into the soil to be able to get double the bang for your buck, from your choice of many people who will go out of their way to help you out.
Eventually you forget what it was even like to be starting out in it until you see somebody else who is. You see part of yourself in them, you see them making the same mistakes you made when you were getting a feel for the whole situation. You see them waiting three days for somebody to come back with something when you could make a phone call and get it in half an hour. Since you see part of yourself in them, you feel compassion for what they're going through.
How would you handle that, personally? Would you go very slightly out of your way to help lift them from the bottom rung of the ladder to the point where they can help themself? Or would you allow them to keep getting fucked in the hopes that it discourages them from the scene altogether? Imagine you see this person pawning their stuff, stealing from their folks, and then not getting their money's worth... is that worse than them sinking to the same depths and getting what they pay for? If you love them, and they're going to be getting into it regardless of what you do, do you raise them up or leave them be in the hopes that they get fucked often enough that they decide to be done with it altogether?
Imagine you're at a point in your life where you've spent time taking your beginner's licks in a certain scene. Getting ripped off or less than what you paid for by middle men, or just plain getting some shit that you wouldn't put in your worst enemy, time and time again in the past, until you finally sink low enough into the soil to be able to get double the bang for your buck, from your choice of many people who will go out of their way to help you out.
Eventually you forget what it was even like to be starting out in it until you see somebody else who is. You see part of yourself in them, you see them making the same mistakes you made when you were getting a feel for the whole situation. You see them waiting three days for somebody to come back with something when you could make a phone call and get it in half an hour. Since you see part of yourself in them, you feel compassion for what they're going through.
How would you handle that, personally? Would you go very slightly out of your way to help lift them from the bottom rung of the ladder to the point where they can help themself? Or would you allow them to keep getting fucked in the hopes that it discourages them from the scene altogether? Imagine you see this person pawning their stuff, stealing from their folks, and then not getting their money's worth... is that worse than them sinking to the same depths and getting what they pay for? If you love them, and they're going to be getting into it regardless of what you do, do you raise them up or leave them be in the hopes that they get fucked often enough that they decide to be done with it altogether?
